I've been using Acronis for years, and haven't found anything that can beat it. Personally I would say nothing beats Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional
This seems to make it relatively painless. The only reason I posted was because of hearing horror stories some have experienced whereby they're facing a rebuild or O/S re-install. To me, this company seems dedicated to making migration and restoration (after failure) as painless as possible. If I were to attempt to install one of my existing Macrium mirrored backups on new PC hardware however, I'd likely encounter all sorts of red flags regarding 'changed hardware ID's'. What I like about this 'Zinstall' approach is that they seem more geared towards 'total salvage' and 'true migration' (rather than scheduled backups). I do a complete and total mirror of my C-drive which weighs in at around 70 GB. By sonic7 - 3 Years - yes I use Macrium Reflect for all my periodic mirrored backups - (generally fortnightly).
